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Bitcoin makes everyone their own bank. Bitcoin can stop wars. Bitcoin is the solution to scams. Bitcoin will prevent fraud. Bitcoin is a superior product to other blockchain-based currencies. Bitcoin is a currency. Bitcoin is an asset. Drop all these statements in a hat and pull...

Nothing excites the bitcoin community like price predictions, especially when the inescapably optimistic predictions look to be coming good. Recently, the rainbow charts and trend analyses have shot skyward, causing “traders” and “experts” to recalibrate...

When the Bitfinex attack happened it sent ripples through the bitcoin community. Bitfinex was and is a leading exchange in the bitcoin space, offering liquidity in a market dominated by suspect trading volume and practices. The amount stolen from Bitfinex is somewhere in the...

It’s a storyline that participants in the cryptocurrency ecosystem have encountered too many times: Bitcoin stolen from users. This time the target was Bitfinex, an exchange among the oldest in the bitcoin ecosystem, an achievement given the number of flops and hacks. The story...

Last week I wrote about the community that surrounds Bitcoin, and how I think they are negatively impacting the future of the cryptocurrency. I took quotes specifically from /r/Bitcoin, and I was pleasantly surprised with the amount of replies and the mostly quality discussion...

It’s easy to write Dogecoin off as a joke, largely because (in a lot of ways) it is. Dogecoin is a weird little altcoin without much to recommend it technically that has somehow found itself a lasting position in the top ten cryptocurrencies, long after the meme behind it has...

We reported last month that Expedia had just begun offering hotel bookings for Bitcoin. Today, in an interview with CoinDesk, Expedia said that they have been seeing greater-than-expected revenue from the project already. During the interview, Expedia’s vice president of...

Popular Bitcoin advocate and Blockchain’s chief security officer, Andreas Antonopoulos started a “We Accept Bitcoin” campaign on Reddit. Since Yelp, a business review website, recently allowed businesses who accept Bitcoin to indicate that they do so on its website, Antonopoulos...